2.2 Plagiarism

Presenting someone else’s ideas and work as your own without giving them proper credit by using appropriate quotation, citation and referencing.

Copying and pasting text directly from a website, journal article, book or other source into your academic work (whether you cite/reference it or not).

Copying and pasting an image directly from a website, journal article, book or other source.

Paraphrasing too closely (e.g., changing only a few words or simply rearranging the text).

Downloading all or part of a paper, journal article, or book from the internet or a library database and presenting it as your own work.

Including citations in the text but not providing the full references in a list at the end of your written work (or vice versa).

Taking notes from articles and copying and pasting passages directly into your working draft then losing track of which sentences are your own and which are from the articles.

Copying text from the internet, a textbook or journal article as your answer to an open book, take home or online exam question without properly paraphrasing, citing and referencing the material.

One group member failing to cite/reference sources properly on a group project (in this scenario, ALL members of the group may be held accountable).

Including fabricated citations/references in your writing.

Using generative AI (a chatbot or a citation generator) to produce/manage your citations/references, resulting in fabricated citations/references being included in your writing.